I was reading through an eHell thread on a TV show, and a poster was commenting on a character who had "scarified" himself for the others. I was sitting there quite puzzled, thinking "Well, he did stab himself, which might technically qualify, but that's a very strange way to describe stabbing..." when it finally dawned on me that it was a typo for "sacrificed". It's amazing what different images a typo can conjure up when it happens to form a real word.

I was once told a story about a little girl who was convinced that when she grew up she'd turn into a boy. She was quite looking forward to it.

When she was at the age where she was interested in the subject, but not yet proficient, my daughter explained toilet training to me. She told me that someday, she would always pee or poop in the potty. When she did that, she would be toilet trained. Then, she would get a penis.

I was once told a story about a little girl who was convinced that when she grew up she'd turn into a boy. She was quite looking forward to it.

When she was at the age where she was interested in the subject, but not yet proficient, my daughter explained toilet training to me. She told me that someday, she would always pee or poop in the potty. When she did that, she would be toilet trained. Then, she would get a penis.

Slightly different child logic: When my brother was about 3 he proudly announced that he knew the difference between girls and boys. When questioned, he pointed to his private parts and said "Boys have a choo-cho train and girls have a tunnel!". He was really into trains and actually had no clue about girl parts other than the name of the appropriate part and that it was different than boy parts. He couldn't understand why all the adults dove out of the room trying to withhold hysterical laughter.

*Note: this little brother is only 11 now, so it wasn't very long ago.

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One of mom's cousins had quintuplets. Two boys, three girls. When it came time for potty training, it was all at once, no separating boys from girls. So one of the girls constantly sat down on the potty with her hands between her legs. When we asked what she was doing, she told us that mommy said that her brothers had to hold their penises so that's what she was doing. She was so proud that she remembered that bit. The boys, you see, were always forgetting.

I heard a Russian who barely speaks English trying to communicate with a Mexican who barely speaks English. The Russian was trying to use which few Spanish words he knew; I will never forget hearing a Russian trying to say "Que paso?"

I was once told a story about a little girl who was convinced that when she grew up she'd turn into a boy. She was quite looking forward to it.

When she was at the age where she was interested in the subject, but not yet proficient, my daughter explained toilet training to me. She told me that someday, she would always pee or poop in the potty. When she did that, she would be toilet trained. Then, she would get a penis.

You gotta love child logic.

Well, it is quite logical if you think about it, kind of an evolutionary theme:

You start out peeing in your diaper while lying down.Then you pee squatting very close to the floor in your baby potty.Then you sit up on the grown-up toilet.

It's only consistent to expect being able to pee standing up after that development